San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-09-23
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 70, 1887.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

FORAkER-FAlRCH llE.
The Times, OF this city, quotes The
words of General ShackletOrd, AT the re-
union of Federal veterans and of G. n
federate soldiers at Evansville, Ind rs
follows: Let us here today, the blue
and gray, with our hearts in our hands
and our hands in each Others, covenant
together that we will protect and keep
the Jewel of liberty in the family of irpe-
dom, and that We will hand it down to
God that it may be sacredly kept and
transmitted until 1t shall have reached
the last generation Of man on earth"
Having thus quoted, the Times adds:
"Such things are awful on Faircbild,
futile and Foraker" Inasmuch as
Fairchild, futile and Foraker offered
their lives that this republic might live;
bsttled in the ranks Of the union loving
soldiers from Gettysburg to New Or
leans that ShaoklefOrd's prayer might be
answered; aided by their swords and
services to hand down that very jewel
OF liberty, will the Times explain how
such sentence hurts, Fairchild, or Tut
tie, or Foraker? COntrarywise, it stirs
to patriotic ardOr every feeling in their
souls. Where did Foraker, or Fairohild,
or futile, ever refuse to grasp hand
that swore feally to the old flag and was
ready to covenant with an oath to pro
tect and keep the jewel OF liberty" as I'M
derstOOd and accepted in that address
at Evansville? The blue and the
gray never had any misunderstanding
about this matter. The mugwup and
the unreconstructed rebels alone an
tagonize the work of Foraker and Tut
tie and F8irchild on those CORY fields of
glory on which nations life was saved
and such prayer as that OF Shackle-
fOrd's made possible. All glory to the
valiant triumviate who do not cover at
the demand OF sickly sentimentalists and
grow ashamed, as years roll by, of their
patriotism and loyalty to nation and
flag and freedom in that hour when the
arm OF rebellion was raised against the
republics life. All praise to the heroes,
who, on the other side, led blindly into
a war whose successful issue would have
blotted out the stars and stripes and
quenChed in blood the nations life, all
praise Ito. these, the boys 10 gray, who
seeing now their error, covenant with
tue boys IN blue that there shall be no
more war against the life OF this nation
on their part so long as the sun and the
moon endure.
The freedom Of speech and action in
this country can only be maintained by
holding every one strictly accountable
for the abuse Of these privileges. The
socialists and anarchists in Chicago have
grossly abused the freedoms OF this land
They have conspired against good gov
eminent, denounced law, and the law
makers, and the guardians OF law and
not content with this made secret war
by the most cowardly and Internal
methods, upon the officers Of the peace,
known to trained and organized con-
splratos. This they did with a most
reckless disregard OF human life, throw
Ing their Obstructive missiles in the
midst OF vast crowd of human beings
in the public place OF pOpulOus city.
For this act they we're Landed and APP
plauded In every conspiracy center in
gloried In their crime In the face OF the
whole adverse sentiment of civiliza-
ton. There has not been shown one
symptom Of contrition or sense of re-
greet for their great crime. The law has
adjudged them guilty-not upon the de-
mands Of an outraged public sentiment,
but after the most IabOrious and ex-
haustive trial in which their attorneys
were allowed every opportunity to secure
a favorable verdict had such been posi-
BILE. The supreme court OF the state in
which the great crime against society
was committed, confirms the sentence
Of the lower court, and from that SEN
tenoe there must be no appeal unless for
cause. The United Ststes supreme
court is now invoked on writ of error.
Let every opportunity to have
this case heard in the highest tribunal Of